BBC: Residents' brief return to Fukushima exclusion zone

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by Roland Buerk

Caption: Residents of Fukushima had to don radiation suits to visit their former homes.

The people gathered in a school gym on the edge of the Fukushima exclusion zone could not have imagined, only months ago, that they would need a radiation suit to visit their own homes.

They were being helped into the unfamiliar outfits by workers already wearing the white plastic overalls, overboots, masks and hats. The floors and the walls had been coated with pink plastic.

They were people who lived in the area around the reactors, still leaking radiation more than four months after they were crippled by Japan's earthquake and tsunami.

Now they are being allowed to go home, but only for a few hours, to look at the places they left behind.

full: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14270736

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1. link? so sad

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2. just added it n/t

[uppityperson]

3. thank you. So sad. If they bring pets or stuff, will it be radioactive I wonder?

I don't know, so am wondering. So sad.